swap_horiz Dai Shogi Alternatives

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Shogi

Shogi is a traditional Japanese strategy game resembling chess. It’s notable for its ‘drop’ rule: captured pieces can be...

Traditional Japanese Promotion Regional

9.7 Brilliant

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Co Tuong

Cờ tướng is the Vietnamese form of xiangqi, the two-player board game commonly called Chinese chess in English. It is pl...

Historical East Asian Regional Vietnamese

9.4 Excellent

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Chu Shogi

Chu Shogi is a traditional Japanese chess-variant developed during the 14th century. Played on a larger 12x12 board, it...

Japanese Historical 12x12 Shogi Family

8.8 Great

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Mini Shogi

Mini Shogi is a modern variant of traditional Japanese chess, invented by Shigenobu Kusumoto in 1971. It is played on a...

Modern Japanese Small Board 5x5

8.1 Great

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Judkins Shogi

Judkins Shogi is a compact Japanese board game variant invented by Paul Judkins in 1998. Played on a grid of 5 columns b...

Modern Japanese 6x6 Small Board

7.8 Good

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Tenjiku Shogi

Tenjiku Shogi is a historical Japanese chess variant played on a large 16×16 board. Developed during the 16th century, i...

Japanese Historical Shogi Family Large Board

7.8 Good

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Tori Shogi

Tori shogi, also called bird shogi, is a Japanese chess variant played on a 7 by 7 board. Its pieces bear bird names, in...

Japanese Historical Shogi Family Bird Pieces

7.7 Good

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Courier-Spiel

Courier-Spiel is a historical German chess variant played on a 12×8 board, part of the Courier chess family that was pla...

German Historical Large Board Courier Family

7.4 Good

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Dai Dai Shogi

Dai dai shogi is a historical Japanese board game belonging to the shogi family, which also includes standard shogi and...

Japanese Historical Large Regional

7.2 Good

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Grande Acedrex

Grande Acedrex, also called Grant Acedrex, is a historical chess variant described in the 13th-century Spanish Libro de...

Spanish Historical 13TH Century Large Board

7.2 Good

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Kyoto Shogi

Kyoto shogi is a compact Japanese chess variant played on a 5 by 5 board with a reduced set of pieces. Except for the ki...

Modern Japanese 5x5 Shogi Family

7.1 Good

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Wa Shogi

Wa Shogi is a large-board Japanese shogi variant played on an 11 by 11 board. Its pieces are named primarily after anima...

Japanese Historical Promotion Shogi Family

6.9 Fair

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Sho Shogi

Sho Shogi is a historical Japanese board game from the Muromachi period (1336–1573) played on a 9×9 grid. It is recogniz...

Japanese Historical Early Shogi Family

6.8 Fair

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Micro Shogi

Micro Shogi is a compact shogi variant played on a 5×5 board, designed to preserve the drop and promotion mechanics of s...

Modern Japanese Mini Shogi Family

6.6 Fair

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Heian Shogi

Heian shogi is a historical form of Japanese shogi associated with the Heian period, from 794 to 1185. The surviving ear...

Japanese Historical Early 8x8

6.4 Fair

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Turkish Great Chess

A large-board chess variant from the Ottoman Turkish tradition, played on a board exceeding the standard 8×8 with an exp...

Medieval Historical Turkish Fairy Pieces

6.2 Fair

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Yari Shogi

Yari Shogi is a Japanese shogi variant in which pieces move and capture only along straight orthogonal lines. Diagonal m...

Japanese Variant Historical Shogi Family

6.1 Fair

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Maka Dai Dai Shogi

Maka Dai Dai Shogi is a large historical Japanese board-game variant in the shogi family. It is traditionally played on...

Japanese Historical Shogi Family Very Large

5.5 Mediocre

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Tai Shogi

Tai Shogi is a historical Japanese chess variant played on a 25 by 25 board with 354 pieces in total, or 177 for each si...

Japanese Historical Shogi Family Very Large

4.5 Poor

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Taikyoku Shogi

Taikyoku shogi is a large Japanese shogi variant known from a historical catalogue of its pieces and modern reconstructi...

Japanese Historical Largest Shogi Family

3.8 Poor